Horseshoe.



E. MOSER & K. SCHWAIGER.

HORSESHOE. APPLICATION PILED 00T. 21,1908.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

ATNT onmon.

ERWIN MOSER AND KARL SCHWAIGER, OF MUNICH, GERMANY.

HORSE SHOE following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to horse shoes provided with means for preventing slipping. This object is obtained by providing the lower face of the shoe with an insert of rope formed of intertwined animal or vege table fibers and. wire, the strands of whieh, moreover, may be advantageously bonnd together by an enter wrapping of wire. This insert may be manufactured in the form of a long rope and then cut into pieces of a length corresponding to the groove in each shoe. The groove is formed on the under side of the shoe preferably running entirely around or the full length of the same with inwardly diverging or nndercut walls so that the 1ope insert can be pressed therein and held tightly on all sides by the walls of the groove without fu1the fastening means. The outer wrapping ol wire may be dispensed With althongh it adds materiaily to the durability of the insert by its binding efiect.

The invention as particularly set out in the accompanying claims Wlll be readily understood f1om an inspection of the drawing, in which, by way of example, is shown a horse shoe embodying the invention.

In this drawing: Figure 1 is a bottom plan view; and Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line AB of Fig. 1.

Specification oi Letters Patent.

Application filed October 21, 1908.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909;

Serial No. 458,828.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the shoe a is shown as provided with a continuous channel or groove a, into which is pressed the rope insert b comprised of animal or vegetable fiber and containing the intertwined wires I), the several strands being held together by the wrapping wire 0. To increase its durability and facilitate compacting and retaining it within the groove, the rope may be imp1egnated with any suitable material such as tar or the like.

Having chus inlly described OUI invention, what we claim is:

' 1. A horse shoe provided in its lower face with a groove, and a 1ope therein formed of vegetable fiber and wrapped with wire.

2. A horse shoe provided in its lower face With a groove, and a rope therein l'ormed ol intertwined fiber and wire and wrapped with wire.

3. A horse shoe provided in its lower face With a groove having under walls, and a rope therein l'ormed of intertwined vegetable fiber and wire with a wire wrapping about said TOPO.

4. A herse shoe provided in its lower face With a groove, and a rope therein formed ol' vegetable impregnated fiber and wrapped witn wire.

In testimony whereol we hereunto alfix ou1 signatures in the presence of two witmesses.

ERW'IN MOSER. KARL SCHJAIGER.

Witnesses ABRAHAM SCHLESINGER, LOUIS F. MUELLER. 

